Talley Retiring
Veteran St. Martin's Press editor Truman Talley is retiring. The 84-year-old has been in the publishing industry for some 60 years, the last 11 at St. Martin's. Talley's worked with such authors as Isaac Asimov, Jack Kerouac and Ian Fleming. His most recent book is The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Publishing, written by Al Silverman. He can be reached at trumantalley@aol.com.
Additions at Tupelo
Tupelo Press in Vermont has hired Jim Schley as managing editor. Schley, a widely published poet, was most recently executive director of the Frost Place, a museum and education center dedicated to poet Robert Frost. Also joining Tupelo are Cassandra Cleghorn, who's been named associate editor for poetry and nonfiction, and Grace Dane Mazur, who's been named fiction editor. Mazur, a former fiction editor at Harvard Review, was most recently on the fiction faculty at the M.F.A. program for writers at Warren Wilson College. Cleghorn is a senior lecturer at Williams College.
